Hudson River Film & Video Company has filmed through the seasons in every kind of weather and changing light to perfect a visual biography of this magnificent river, its cliffs and hills and graceful waterways while narrator Orson Welles unfolds the valley's past in a series of ever-changing conflicts: white man and Indian; Dutch and English; Patriot and Tory; land-owner and tenant; steamship and railroad; industry and environment.

In only the last 6,000 of its 75 million years have humans inhabited the Hudson's shores. The river has been travelled on, fished in, and fought over. It has been ignored, adored and praised for its beauty. It has been an historic center of American culture and the site of early industry and industrial pollution as well as the inspiration for the first environmental protection. This fascinating spectacle has won the Grand Prix of the Houston International Film Festival, an Emmy for Cinematography and a CINE

Golden Eagle.

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